July21, 2026

Britain's new Prime Minister Andy Burnham ⁠said on Monday the country needs to regain stability and pledged to set out new measures this week ‌to help tackle the cost of ‌living before setting out a ‌new 10-year plan for the country later ‌this year.

"Britain needs to show the world that we can regain our stability once again," ⁠Burnham ‌said during his speech outside No. 10 Downing Street after he was officially appointed as prime minister.

"We have not been good enough, and we need ‌to be better," he said. Promising Britons "some breathing space now," he said the government would set out some measures to tackle the high cost of living and how it plans to fund them.

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